[Rarebooks] FS: First Mention in a Book of Thoreau at Walden Pond, 1853 HOMES OF AMERICAN AUTHORS, price reduced

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Price reduced to $140 NET

[PUTNAM, George P. & BRIGGS, Charles F. (editors)]. HOMES OF AMERICAN 
AUTHORS; COMPRISING ANECDOTICAL, PERSONAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES BY 
VARIOUS WRITERS. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853. First Edition. Original 
decorated blue cloth with gilt insets on each cover. The homes of 17 
authors are described and illustrated with views of their residences 
from original drawings and a facsimile of a manuscript for each. 
Included are John James Audubon, James K. Paulding, Washington Irving, 
William Cullen Bryant, George Bancroft, Richard Henry Dana, William H. 
Prescott, Miss C. M. Sedgwick, J. Fenimore Cooper, Edward Everett, Ralph 
Waldo Emerson, William Gilmore Simms, Henry W. Longfellow, Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, John Pendleton Kennedy, and James Russell 
Lowell. Fourteen of the illustrations are small color-tinted and mounted 
views; nineteen are full-page steel engravings. BAL 1345: the most 
expensive "proof" issue; Bennett, AMERICAN COLOR PLATE BOOKS, p. 58. 
Authors include George W. Curtis, William C. Bryant, and Edward E. Hale. 
The piece on Emerson includes apparently the first mention in a book of 
Thoreau at Walden Pond. Toning to text, light and scattered foxing. 
Cloth rubbed especially along the edges, with some splits along the 
joints, but covers tight. Very Good copy of this handsome volume. 
(#011984)        $200.00

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